digital natives Archives

China’s kindergarten coders: The AI arms race begins at age 4

July 4, 2025 by Mitzi Perdue, Institute of World Politics & American Society for AI

If AI is the new literacy and the foundation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the future may be written by those who learned it first.

In a brightly lit preschool classroom in Shenzhen, 4-year-olds are gathered around an AI-enabled robot named Toubao. With practiced ease, they issue voice commands, identify image patterns, and…

Edtech Trends

Classroom tech: The new and the tried-and-true of 2024

February 20, 2024 by Nadav Avni

Digital natives need classroom technology--including edtech tools and digital resources--that uses their natural medium of instruction. Classroom tech and students learning.

It’s 2024! Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. Over the last few decades, applied technology in the classroom…

Newsline

Dexter Community Schools in Michigan Uses Rise Vision to Encourage Student Creativity and Increase Student Engagement

May 23, 2023 by ESchool News Staff

Dexter, Michigan — Dexter Community School, a mid-size school district located in Dexter, Michigan, has implemented Rise Vision’s digital signage ... Read more

Curriculum

4 tips for an effective digital citizenship program

November 8, 2021 by Matthew Keyes, Director of Human Resources and Title IX Coordinator, San Juan School District, Utah

Identifying the issues facing your school and learning how to prevent those issues is a proactive way to approach digital citizenship

Today, students are not merely digital natives; they are voracious consumers and creators of digital content both in school and out. This increased access has also increased the…

District Management

How to use social media in the classroom

February 13, 2018February 13, 2018 by Jon Roepke

Today’s educators have a love-hate relationship with social media. They recognize that five-year-olds know how to use tablets better than their parents and that many kids have smartphones…

Curriculum

This is what Gen Z-designed curriculum looks like for the future

April 19, 2017April 17, 2017 by Darren Faust

The generation in school now is the first generation raised entirely in the Age of Technology. They are digital natives, many of them using computers, smartphones, and other…

District Management

Last NSBA technology conference focuses on future of ed tech

October 20, 2010 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

Opening Oct. 19 with a flourish of red, white, and blue sails on the main stage, this year’s Technology and Learning (T+L) conference from the National School Boards…

District Management

Survey: ‘Digital natives’ need more IT support

April 22, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

A recent survey shows even tech-savvy college students require more campus IT support than you might think.

IT Management

A look at the technology culture divide

November 6, 2013March 31, 2010 by By Randall Hoyer

The arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century fundamentally changed our students. Today's students represent the first generation to grow…

District Management

CompassLearning bought by private investment firm

November 5, 2013February 1, 2010 by From staff and wire reports

Educational software company CompassLearning has been purchased by Marlin Equity Partners, a move that CEO Eric Loeffel said will give the company greater flexibility in a fast-paced market…

China’s kindergarten coders: The AI arms race begins at age 4

Classroom tech: The new and the tried-and-true of 2024

Dexter Community Schools in Michigan Uses Rise Vision to Encourage Student Creativity and Increase Student Engagement

4 tips for an effective digital citizenship program

This is what Gen Z-designed curriculum looks like for the future

Last NSBA technology conference focuses on future of ed tech

Survey: ‘Digital natives’ need more IT support

A look at the technology culture divide

ISTE Takeaways:What’s the Deal with Data—EdTech Research and Challenges

North Carolina District Wins ISTE 2025 Distinguished Award for AI Leadership and Parent Engagement Innovation

10 (and counting…) Google goodies for your classroom

ISTE Takeaways—What It Takes To Win the Impact Award

Look Who’s Talking—Bringing STEM Up To Speed

With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts

Savvy Cyber Kids Appoints New Members to Board of Directors

Project POTUS 2025 Middle School Winners Announced

K12 Earns High Marks for Excellence in Online Public Education

First AI-Powered Special Education Management Platform Helps Districts Reach 100% IEP Compliance

Students Using Lexia Core5 Reading Outperformed Their Peers On the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts/Literacy Assessment

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